This week, the week of Eid al-Adha, is not the most rich with arts events because people are busy preparing. We’re not particularly inspired by this Eid’s cinema releases, so…
"Roznama 4" is the fourth art competition held by Medrar for Contemporary Art. With an accompanying exhibition and various prizes awarded, it acts as a platform for artists under 30 working…
Egypt can potentially present a successful exhibition, given the rich field of work undertaken here in difficult conditions by a wide range of architects and urbanists aiming to improve the…
Six council members of the Actors Syndicate have been granted powers of arrest in legislation aiming to confront violations of the law regulating…
An ill-fitting day job, elating football games in the afternoon and occasional one-nighters with a colleague
With the first Cairene Cannes Critic's Week and the Goethe's annual film festival, there's a glut of good films to chose from in Cairo in the coming days. We help…
Lost in a world of objects belonging to adults, things that are ornamental and precious and off-limits to the pesky hands of a child.
It’s hard not to compare Sukkar Mor (Bitter Sugar) with director Hany Khalifa’s first and only other feature film, Sahar al-Layaly (Sleepless Nights, 2003). Both follow upper-middle-class Egyptian couples trying…
As the second part of a two-month-long anti-atheism seminar series titled Al-Ghany (“The Rich”) at El Sawy Cultural Wheel ended Tuesday, the organizer and commentators paused…
There can be something unbelievably sexy about a group of young men walking into a desolate landscape or driving a convertible into an ailing city. Strangely, the sons of Rizk…
Cultural organizations have been waking up again after a long summer, and this should be a good week for the arts. In Cairo we’ve chosen to recommend a large exhibition…
Two little-known gallerists were arrested Thursday for counterfeiting paintings by infamous former Culture Minister Farouk Hosni, the latest example of Egypt's worsening art forgery problem. Hosni,…
In 1929, the Ministry of Interior banned Wedad Orfi's Masat al-Hayah (The Tragedy of Life). The reason: "The story as we saw it revels in self-indulgence, overshadowing the good part…
Egyptian visual artist Hani El-Masri has died at the age of 64 after a long battle with cancer. The artist had a long…
We made it through the blazing heat dome. Now that the climate seems to have settled back down to a normal 30-something degrees, it’s time to leave the sanctity of…
There has been an apocalyptic “heat dome” hanging over our heads this month. Little can be done. We advise taking reprieve from the unbearable exterior world in Cairo’s many cinemas and independent…
Even if it seemed to strive for authenticity, the show ended up providing a re-packaged version of a conservative moralistic tale, in which addiction is reduced to the byproduct of…
Renowned actor Nour al-Sherif died Tuesday afternoon, announced Actors Syndicate Head Sameh al-Sereity. His funeral will be held on Wednesday at the…
In keeping with Egypt’s long and storied tradition of immediately commemorating national projects with a flurry of new artistic works, the New Suez Canal launches with an ecstatic soundtrack of…
The rhetoric surrounding this fervidly hyped project serves as a reminder that this is just the latest chapter in a long story of nation building.
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